When I was first starting to write poetry in my early 20s, I didn’t really understand much about it. I hadn’t been an English major in college, nor had I read much American poetry. So I felt simultaneously thrilled, destabilized, and confused...

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The contents of this volume based on a conference at Hull and Beverley in July 1997 are: Hans Aili, 'Alfonso's editorial work in the Liber ad reges: a pitfall for vernacular translators?'; Eva Odelman, "Rarae aves' in Brigitta's vocabulary'; Lars Wollin, 'Birgittine biography at Vadstena: a bilingual affair?'; Hans Torben Gilkaer, 'The 'Birgittiner-norske' texts: purpose and tradition'; Jonathan Adams, 'An introduction to the Danish translations of St Birgitta's Revelations'; Ulrich Montag, 'The reception of St Birgitta in Germany'; Ulla Sander Olsen, 'The life and works of St Birgitta in Netherlandish translations'; James Hogg, 'Middle English translations of the Birgittine Rule'; Rosalynn Voaden, 'Rewriting the letter: variations in the Middle English translation of the Epistola solitarii ad reges of Alfonso of Jaen'; Domenico Pezzini, 'The Italian reception of Birgittine writings'; Claes Gejrot, 'The Fifteen Oes: Latin and Vernacular versions. With an edition of the Latin text'; and Arne Jonsson, 'The modern Swedish translator of St Birgitta's works: Tryggve Lunden, his background and his impact'.